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to the notion that design can’t be tested without real content:
I’ve heard the argument that “lorem ipsum” is effective in wireframing or design because it
helps people focus on the actual layout, or color scheme, or whatever. What kills me here
is that we’re talking about creating a user experience that will (whether we like it or not)
be DRIVEN by words. The entire structure of the page or app flow is FOR THE WORDS.
If that's what you think how bout the other way around? How can you evaluate content
without design? No typography, no colors, no layout, no styles, all those things that
convey the important signals that go beyond the mere textual, hierarchies of
information, weight, emphasis, oblique stresses, priorities, all those subtle cues that
also have visual and emotional appeal to the reader. Rigid proponents of content
strategy may shun the use of dummy copy but then designers might want to ask them
to provide style sheets with the copy decks they supply that are in tune with the design
direction they require.
Or else, an alternative route: set checkpoints, networks, processes, junctions between
content and layout. Depending on the state of affairs it may be fine to concentrate
either on design or content, reversing gears when needed.
Or maybe not. How about this: build in appropriate intersections and checkpoints
between design and content. Accept that it’s sometimes okay to focus just on the
content or just on the design.
Luke Wroblewski, currently a Product Director at Google, holds that fake data can break
down in real life:
Using dummy content or fake information in the Web design process can result in products
with unrealistic assumptions and potentially serious design flaws. A seemingly elegant
design can quickly begin to bloat with unexpected content or break under the weight of
actual activity. Fake data can ensure a nice looking layout but it doesn’t reflect what a
living, breathing application must endure. Real data does.
Lorem Ipsum: translation
The Latin scholar H. Rackham translated the above in 1914:

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of
denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account
of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the
master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself,
because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure
rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone
who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain,
but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some
great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical
exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find
fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences,
or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so
beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by
desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and
equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is
the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly
simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is
untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every
pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and
owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that
pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore
always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to
secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.
Lorem Ipsum: variants and technical information

In 1985 Aldus Corporation launched its first desktop
publishing program Aldus PageMaker for Apple Macintosh computers, released in 1987
for PCs running Windows 1.0. Both contained the variant lorem ipsum most common
today. Laura Perry, then art director with Aldus, modified prior versions of Lorem
Ipsum text from typographical specimens; in the 1960s and 1970s it appeared often in
lettering catalogs by Letraset. Anecdotal evidence has it that Letraset used Lorem
ipsum already from 1970 onwards, eg. for grids (page layouts) for ad agencies. Many
early desktop publishing programs, eg. Adobe PageMaker, used it to create template.
Most text editors like MS Word or Lotus Notes generate random lorem text when
needed, either as pre-installed module or plug-in to be added. Word selection or
sequence don't necessarily match the original, which is intended to add variety.
Presentation software like Keynote or Pages use it as a samples for screenplay layout.
Content management software as Joomla, Drupal, Mambo, PHP-Nuke, WordPress, or
Movable Type offer Lorem Ipsum plug-ins with the same functionality.

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to the notion that design can’t be tested without real content:

direction they require.

Or else, an alternative route: set checkpoints, networks, processes, junctions between

either on design or content, reversing gears when needed.

content or just on the design.

down in real life:

living, breathing application must endure. Real data does.

Lorem Ipsum: translation

The Latin scholar H. Rackham translated the above in 1914:

master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself,

who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain,

or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by

always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to

Lorem Ipsum: variants and technical information

needed, either as pre-installed module or plug-in to be added. Word selection or

Content management software as Joomla, Drupal, Mambo, PHP-Nuke, WordPress, or

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